eligible employeemeans an adviser, within the meaning of the Superannuation Regulations, other than a person who is— (a) employed by an employing authority to work at one or more than one school maintained by that authority in a teaching or supervisory capacity, or (b) an eligible employee within the meaning of the Local Government (Compensation for Redundancy) (Scotland) Regulations 1994;
former employmentmeans the employment that ceased as described in regulation 3(a);
pensionable employmenthas the same meaning as in the Superannuation Regulations;
prescribed periodmeans the period beginning on 6th April 1995 and ending on 31st March 1997;
reckonable servicemeans any period of pensionable employment and any period of special service not being special service consisting of periods of unpaid leave or other unpaid absence from duty;
relevant assumptionsmeans the assumptions that— (a) during any period of special service a person was in pensionable employment;
relevant bodymeans— (a) a local authority constituted under section 2 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
relevant yearmeans the period of one year, ending with the material date or, where it would yield a higher amount of remuneration, either of the two years immediately preceding the start of that year;
special servicemeans any period of employment with respect to which the employing authority is satisfied that the person would have been, or been treated as being, in pensionable employment were it not for the existence in relation to the employee concerned and that employment of a relevant disqualification;
the 1980 Regulationsmeans the Teachers' (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Scotland) Regulations 1980.
the 1994 Actmeans the Local Government etc.
the Superannuation Regulationsmeans the Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1992;